'Budding' definitions:
Definition of 'budding'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Beginning to develop; "a budding genius"
noun
Reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
Definition of 'Budding'
From: GCIDE
- Bud \Bud\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Budded; p. pr. & vb. n. Budding.]
- 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To sprout; germinate; blossom. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Budding'
From: GCIDE
- Budding \Bud"ding\, n.
- 1. The act or process of producing buds. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'budding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- antenatal,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- blooming,
- blossoming,
- burgeoning,
- callow,
- creative,
- crescent,
- developed,
- dewy,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- fetal,
- florescent,
- flourishing,
- flowering,
- formative,
- foundational,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- fully developed,
- fundamental,
- gestatory,
- green,
- growing,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- hypertrophied,
- immature,
- impubic,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- inexperienced,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenuous,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innocent,
- intact,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- juicy,
- mature,
- minor,
- naive,
- nascent,
- natal,
- new-fledged,
- original,
- overdeveloped,
- overgrown,
- parturient,
- postnatal,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- procreative,
- raw,
- ripening,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sappy,
- sprouting,
- tender,
- thriving,
- unadult,
- underage,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unformed,
- unlicked,
- unmellowed,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- ur,
- vernal,
- virginal
Words containing 'Budding'
- Bud,
- Budded,
- Bud moth,
- Cassia buds,
- Farcy bud,
- Flower bud,
- Fruit bud,
- Latent buds,
- Leaf bud,
- Medusa bud,
- Red Bud,
- Rose Bud,
- Rum bud,
- Seed bud,
- Taste buds,
- To nip in the bud,
- Winter bud,
- arnica bud,
- brood bud,
- bud brush,
- bud sagebrush,
- mixed bud,
- nip in the bud,
- taste bud,
- winter buds,
- Mary-bud,
- Red Bud, IL,
- Rose Bud, AR,
- big-bud hickory,
- involute rolled esp of petals or leaves in bud having margins rolled inward